Almost everyone who considers himself or herself a ufologist or UFO aficionado is acting as if they are berserk.
The blogs, web-sites, articles (in some sympathetic newspapers and magazines), and conferences have proliferated to the point that the UFO mystery has become a hodge-podge of everything, including the kitchen sink.
Hypotheses, conjectures, regurgitated flying saucer stories (from all the way back to the cave-man era), and just plain nonsense have taken control of the UFO phenomenon so that any serious scrutiny of the enigma is virtually impossible.
This is symptomatic of schizophrenia, or something very much like it.
This has always been the bane of ufology: a discursive approach to the examinations and research into flying saucers and their modern counterpart, UFOs.
But today's cacophony of noise has all but eliminated the signal, as they say.
The UFO material has been corrupted to the point that flying saucer sightings, events, and episodes are meaningless, as far as real researchers or analysts are concerned.
Sure, a small coterie of UFO nuts will continue to stoke the ufological fires but for those who think the phenomenon (or phenomena) may contain something worthwhile, even portentous, or profound, the accrued clutter is daunting.
Some of those creating the mess? Kal Korff (about to be skewered by Paul Kimball), BillyMeier, Regan Lee, Joseph Capp, Errol Bruce-Knapp, and even Stanton Friedman, among many, many more.
Again, it will take a UFO apocalypse to cleanse the debris and maniacs away.
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